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Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble Jul 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 49:53 Ranjan Roy This is one of the dumbest corporate espionage things I've ever seen, even though, even the, the Uber Waymo stuff back in the day had a little bit more, uh, like cloak and dagger elements to it.

The Real ROI of AI Tokens — With Dallas Dolen Jul 9, 2026 · 1 mention

Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast Jun 26, 2026 · 1 mention

Claude Code Head Boris Cherny: Insane Growth, Tokenmaxxing, AI Agents' Next Frontier May 20, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:36 Alex Kantrowitz And the experience is kind of, it's almost the same as I had with the Waymo, where, um, those first couple turns, I was, like, white knuckling and, like, watching and, like, should I approve reading everything? 2 times in the scene

The Allure of AI Love + Does Anyone Want AI Wearables? — With Joanna Stern May 13, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 15:46 Joanna Stern And that's exactly what he says in a later question, um, because I also say, do I need to say thank you to the Waymo driver when I get out, right? 4 times in the scene

The Pentagon's AI Plan + Behind the Anthropic Fight — With Under Secretary of War Emil Michael Apr 15, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:21 Emil Michael Autonomous vehicles from Uber, but in reality, if you look at FSD from, from Tesla or even Waymo, the safety statistics are amazing.

Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff Mar 2, 2026 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 18:49 Alex Kantrowitz But back to your point, I mean, like, you know, I try, I would trust, think about this, I would trust a Waymo, I would get in a Waymo, I would trust it to drive me. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:14 Ranjan Roy Waymo's operating in New York City officially will mean AGI is here.

How Google DeepMind Operates & Experiments — With Lila Ibrahim and James Manyika Feb 18, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 9:52 James Manyika Uh, you've got, uh, work going on to build special things for Waymo and enhance the models that Waymo's, uh, that lead to Waymo, the, the, the Waymo driver. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:52 James Manyika Uh, you've got, uh, work going on to build special things for Waymo and enhance the models that Waymo's, uh, that lead to Waymo, the, the, the Waymo driver.

2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions: Meta, NVIDIA, Tesla, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft Dec 24, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 19:15 Reed Albergotti The Waymo thing is, is, you know, all over the place. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 25:56 Alex Kantrowitz Reid, is this gonna be the year, and why, why is Tesla not really viewed in the same league as Waymo? 5 times in the scene

CNBC's Jim Cramer: Big Tech Hot Takes, NVIDIA $10 Trillion?, Building Wealth In Any Market Dec 23, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 12:30 Alex Kantrowitz Also, Waymo is a beast. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:35 Jim Cramer Absolutely, and I remember when the Waymo people first introduced it to me, and they were talking about how you would never have invented a car where a human does it because, but it happened to be a car before the horse. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 24:05 Jim Cramer I'm betting on a Waymo-like bartender, meaning that we like it much more than the, than a Uber, and he said it's gonna happen within the next two, three years.

Tim Cook’s Final Year?, Big Tech Horse Race, Anthropic’s Profitability Push Dec 1, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 36:48 M.G. Siegler Uh, you know, that anyone couldn't have sort of thought about just looking at what they have on their plate beyond even AI with Waymo and everything else coming up.
  • ▶ 42:45 M.G. Siegler And I think it would be hard to argue against Google, just given that they own not only Google cloud, you know, on which a lot of models and everything are running, but they, the TPUs as you're noting, obviously they have the search…

OpenAI Bailout?, Elon’s $1 Trillion Pay Deal, Amazon Sues Perplexity Nov 10, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:02 Alex Kantrowitz Even if the humanoid robots don't assemble into the army, people will knock these things out and they're already burning Waymos.

AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO? Oct 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:32 Ranjan Roy Other than Waymo's driving around New York City, but in this context, I mean, that that's the, the official industry standard, but, but in all the, in all these contexts, I'm curious, like you mentioned AI curing cancer is kind of one like…

Are 95% of Businesses Really Getting No Return on AI Investment? — With Aaron Levie Sep 18, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:38 Aaron Levie Um, you know, obviously Waymo, you know, got kicked off, I don't know, a decade, decade and a half ago, and only this year is it, you know, accessible in suburban Silicon Valley.

Booz Allen CTO: AI in Government, Autonomous Driving, Quantum's Promise Sep 10, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 38:11 Alex Kantrowitz Um, but there's also, if you, if you think about the reality of where self-driving is today, um, there's Waymo, which I think is obviously it's expanding fast and it generalizes a bunch of tech of its technology, but also, you know, take… 2 times in the scene

Google’s Best Week Ever, AI’s Rising Costs, Putin and Xi’s Immortality Quest Sep 8, 2025 · 3 mentions

Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Superintelligence, Layoffs & Payoffs, Writing With AI — With M.G. Siegler Aug 4, 2025 · 1 mention

Are AI's Economics Unsustainable? — With Ed Zitron Jul 23, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 39:29 Ed Zitron Like, you could, Waymo is imperfect, but you can get in a car in San Francisco and it will drive you around, and you could do that a few years ago in very controlled spaces, but we don't even have a controlled space where an agent's doing…

OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie Jul 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:33 Aaron Levie Um, one, one cool thing, actually maybe just a small anecdote, one cool thing is, um, Waymo just, uh, arrived in, uh, where I live in, in Silicon Valley in the peninsula, and, um, and you know, everybody in, in, in downtown SF has already…

The Web’s ‘Existential’ AI Threat, OpenAI’s Microsoft Office Competitor, Tesla Robotaxi Launch Jun 30, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 11:04 Alex Kantrowitz They have Waymo, they have isomorphic labs, but the reason why the stock is the cheapest, I think of all magnificent seven stocks is because we don't know what's going to happen to search.
  • ▶ 56:40 Reed Albergotti It was definitely a screw up, but nothing that you wouldn't see, I think from, I mean, even these Waymo's sometimes will do screwy things and, but ultimately like, you know, they didn't hit any pedestrians. 6 times in the scene

Tom Lee: Decoding the AI Trade, Bitcoin Predictions & What an AI Black Swan Event Might Look Like Jun 25, 2025 · 1 mention

OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree Jun 23, 2025 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 5:11 Ranjan Roy Well, they certainly have the wiggle room when Waymo comes to New York City and we declare AGI, which we'll get into later, but, but no, no, I, I agree that from a pure financial standpoint or a pure contractual standpoint, they don't have…
  • ▶ 44:37 Alex Kantrowitz Waymo is about to start testing in New York City. 6 times in the scene

Sam Altman’s Gentle Singularity, Zuck’s AI Power Play, Burning Of The Waymos Jun 14, 2025 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 0:34 Alex Kantrowitz And then, of course, the image of the week, Waymo's lit on fire in Los Angeles amid the protests. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 26:37 Alex Kantrowitz We got to talk about this meta thing, very quick reaction, WWDC and the fact that Waymo's are on fire.
  • ▶ 52:53 Alex Kantrowitz Sort of a perfect lead-in to our final story of the week, which is why Waymo self-driving cars became a target of protesters in Los Angeles. 7 times in the scene

Anthony Scaramucci: Elon Musk’s Trump Exit, Tim Cook’s Tariff Problem Jun 4, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:22 Alex Kantrowitz The iPhone, ChatGPT, driving in a driverless Waymo car, and watching Nolan play a video game and beat me in a video game using just his brain.

The ‘AI-First Company,’ Big Tech Mega Earnings, NVIDIA vs. Anthropic May 5, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:01:03 Ranjan Roy Again, if a Waymo can drive the streets of New York City, I'll give you self-aware AGI.

Is Anthropic’s Claude AI Conscious, Shopping in ChatGPT, Systrom vs. Zuck Apr 28, 2025 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 37:49 Ranjan Roy Well, I mean, speaking of self-driving, uh, I was in San Francisco last week again and, uh, rode another Waymo, my second ride, and, and Waymo announced that they just surpassed a quarter million paid rides. 7 times in the scene
  • ▶ 39:40 Alex Kantrowitz Speaking of Waymo, Google reported earnings this week, and there was a bit of a contradiction.

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on AI Competition, Agents, And Tariffs Apr 9, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:31 Thomas Kurian Highly scalable training, serving infrastructure for all our services, YouTube, search, advertising, Waymo, etc.

Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti Feb 19, 2025 · 4 mentions

Bold Predictions For Tech and AI in 2025 — With Casey Newton Jan 5, 2025 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 39:55 Alex Kantrowitz Speaking of Google projects, I mean, in 2024, the field of self-driving was, I don't want to say ceded to Google because Tesla's still in the game, but, um, I mean, Waymo really cleared a lot of the competition out. 10 times in the scene

NVIDIA's Auto Play and the Future of Autonomous Driving — With Danny Shapiro Jul 31, 2024 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 2:03 Alex Kantrowitz Yeah, and I had experience in San Francisco last summer where I spent a bunch of time riding in Waymo's and then riding in Cruises, and we had, ah, Cruz, the Cruz CEO at the time, Kyle Vogt, come on the show and talk about how his plan was… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 9:02 Alex Kantrowitz I thought it was largely the car makers, like the Waymos or the Teslas that are developing the autonomous technology.
  • ▶ 14:10 Alex Kantrowitz One is, I'm just going to call it shorthand, the Waymo school of thought, which is that you need like a gazillion sensors and cameras, and your car is going to look like a submarine, and it's going to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars,… 3 times in the scene

Big Technology's New Release, AI Bubble Looms, Apple's Next Event — With Brian McCullough Oct 25, 2023 · 6 mentions

  • ▶ 20:52 Alex Kantrowitz Waymo CEO Takedra Mawakana on next week on big technology podcast. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 53:26 Alex Kantrowitz And then next Wednesday, an interview with Takidra Mawakana, the co-CEO of Waymo, more self-driving car talk.

Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt — Self Driving Cars Will 10X Every Year Oct 6, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 12:17 Alex Kantrowitz I've used Waymo app. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:01 Alex Kantrowitz I mean, two I can think of right off the bat is you and Google, uh, with the Waymo, but Tesla is an interesting case because, okay, their full self-driving isn't exactly full self-driving, but they have more cars driving more miles…

Google's DeepMind Wants To Make Human-Level Artificial Intelligence, Says Its Chief Business Officer Sep 14, 2023 · 7 mentions

  • ▶ 48:21 Alex Kantrowitz Um, I'm in San Francisco right now here for a visit and hopped in a Waymo a week ago. 7 times in the scene

Google's "X" Experimental Unit CEO Astro Teller — The Incredible Promise Of AI & Its Dangers Jun 29, 2023 · 9 mentions

Google Engineer Says Its AI is SENTIENT Jul 29, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 29:37 Blake Lemoine Now they might, we might just haven't asked the cars if they have a feeling about driving, but let's assume for the moment that the Waymo cars doesn't have a particular emotional stance towards driving. 2 times in the scene
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